Delicious Death

The Murder of Roger AckroydTo Punkiewho likes an orthdox detective story, murder, inquest, and suspicion falling on everyone in turn!

UK

Collins, London, Jun. 1926

London Evening News, Jul.16-Sep.16 1925 as 'Who Killed Ackroyd?'

US

Dodd Mead, New York, Jun. 1926

Flynn's Weekly Detective, Jun.19-Jul.10 1926

Plot

Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He Knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Now, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with a drug overdose.
But the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information. Unfortunately, before he could finish the letter, he was stabbed to death...